tape

• Noun

  1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
  2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
  4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  5. (informal) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  7. The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  8. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
  9. A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
  10. (obsolete,slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)
  11. Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”).

• Verb